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There are conflicting explanations of the origin of the word “football”. It is widely assumed that the word “football” (or the phrase “foot ball”) refers to the action of the foot kicking a ball. There is an alternative explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe that were played on foot. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
That’s so convoluted even NASA boffins that ARE able to correctly convert from imperial to metric and land things on Mars got confused.